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Suddenly the Emperor
Tried something different. Thanks to @jo92346 for turning me onto chapter markers in you tube. He makes excellent use of these. Check him out.
I am generally opposed to music videos on the grounds that they have destroyed most people’s ability to just listen to music. Without a video to tell them exactly what to see their minds can’t supply it any more. This post is an attempt to meet those folks halfway with a vague generalized story and a few pictures. Maybe some will listen beyond 30 seconds or even click a marker to satisfy curiosity. Obviously none of the above whining is directed at anybody here. Just an old boomer preaching to the choir.
Anyway, the composition is basically a theme and variations. Done entirely in logic on ipad. Our love/hate relationship continues.
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That’s excellent. Wonderful production, too. I listened all the way thru. Ignored the video.
Synthwave meets 8bit game music all with the composition skill of great movie score!
Great writing. I found the motifs and transitions reminiscent of Anderson Wake and Powel (bruford)
The sound palette was a little tin-ey and lacked some bass, but I’m sure that was a choice.
Wonderful track… the first section reminded (not sure why) of the music to the original Italian Job film.
Great synth playing / programming, catchy tunes / rhythms… very enjoyable 🙏
@LinearLineman thanks much as always. Ignoring the video is probably what saved it. I may put a disclaimer in future to only look at the pictures if absolutely necessary.
@audiblevideo thank for listening and great comments. There is little choice in the mix because I am old and high frequencies are gone. I am always guessing what it would have sounded like to my 40 year younger self. I count on others to tell me if it makes their ears bleed.
@GeoTony once again you honor me. 🙏 Back to you.
Well done! even 'epic' one could say. I know what you mean about video but not sure if I'd go as far as that. If I'm sitting in front of a screen I don't mind watching something but I also like listening while walking, say. Back when I was much younger I spent a lot of time listening with my eyes closed; now I don't seem to have the 'space' for that.
@MrStochastic thanks much. I probably was a bit hyperbolic with my video bias. But I do know some people who just don’t know how to process music, especially instrumental music, if you don’t show them what it’s about. Like their imagination has atrophied from lack of use. Like you, I don’t mind watching sometimes either. But that’s a far cry from requiring it.
This is interesting to me because I like visual art yet videos or images can also fix a kind of 'meaning' to music instead of letting it be more open ended. Like your piece here will now always have that medieval battle idea but you could have chosen a balloon race, say.
I was actually quite disappointed when that finished, was expecting it to go into another direction! I liked it a lot, you have a good imagination. And the video fitted the music too
@MrStochastic
Exactly! So is it better to have no image or description? I’m thinking of Ray Lynch who gave nonsensical titles to his stuff. Like he did not want to influence your experience. I really like that concept (as well as his music) but then the imagination deprived won’t listen at all. I’m really torn. Like I said above, maybe put a disclaimer to only look at the pictures or read the story if absolutely necessary. Can we have it both ways?
@Berby thanks much for the kind words. My daughter made a similar comment about wanting a sequel. I am working on one now. Maybe it will be about a balloon race as @MrStochastic suggested.
Sorry I missed this. Been away for a little while. I love this sort of thing. It motivates me to get back to actual composing. Lately I have been relying on MIDI pattern generators and loops. I just accept what I get, and work around that. Basically, I’m getting lazy. I have used a few standard notation editors, but usually go back to the MIDI piano roll. I justify it by telling myself that nobody will ever want to read my scores anyway, so I might as well skip the middleman. MIDI generators like Piano Motifs provide some great starting points. I just need to take them further or… actually write my own from scratch. I used to do that all the time, but the technology was limited. This iPad stuff lets me do what once required a basement full of pre-MIDI synths and a 4 track tape deck. It was a lot of fun at the time, but I was dependent on other musicians and their schedules. There was also that whole democratic process thing. I could never get anyone to play what I wrote. It was usually… let’s just jam.
Glad you posted this at this time. Summer is coming and I’m really looking forward to sitting outside with my iPad. I need to try something new, somehow. Are there any advantages to Logic that I don’t get in Cubasis? Maybe a change of environment will help. I have all of the synths I could ever need and I promised my wife I would stop buying them. I guess what I’m looking for is a new way of doing things.
Anyway, I thought this deserved a bump. It’s really well done and has lots of things that I can “borrow” from. I can’t believe it snowed this morning! I’m starting to look for a new place. My sister sent me a few links to her area in Florida. Looks like it would be perfect for the two of us.
Looking forward to the sequel. I second ballon races. That would be cool.
@Paulieworld there is not single sentence in your comment that I would not have written myself about composing, it’s uncanny really. I stopped writing down music for all of and exactly the same reasons you mentioned. I also have an attic full of gear which has been 100% replaced by my iPad. It’s that 4 track on steroids (“roads? We don’t need roads”) I also use the generating stuff as a starting point. The only difference is that I’m way too anal to accept what I get. I obsess on every minuscule detail in editing midi and synth parameters.
Which brings up logic vs Cubasis. I am not sure I will stick with logic and may try CB again. Neither rings the bell for me for dealing with my obsessions. What I really want is Nanostudio back. But alas….
Where logic might fit for you is the Live Loops mode which is really just clips based. I don’t use that feature because I work linearly, I can’t do it another way. But you also excel at intuitively piecing together chunks of music into something new. Can we call that an object oriented approach to composition?
I myself am in Florida right now sitting outside with my iPad. Returning to Chicago in a month or so. I can tell you that if you are thinking of buying in Florida, now is the time. Real estate market has tanked.
Talk about off topic…. Thank you and peace.